In the midplane, the vacuum magnetic dipole field has scale , while the result of part i gives . Ampère's law then gives the induced-field estimatewhere numerical factors are immaterial in this dimensional analysis. Thus atThis is the light cylinder radius: rigid corotation would have . The nonrelativistic approximation and the assumed unmodified vacuum field therefore fail at the same scale, and a self-consistent pulsar magnetosphere must replace them.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 314 1 b i Solution 2026-09-28
For the aligned magnetic dipole field,Since ,The corotation velocity is . The current density is therefore the advected charge density,